178 Quotes by Jimmy Iovine

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

Ground zero for me is audio.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.